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在非银河微波天空中没有大角度相关

No large-angle correlations on the non-Galactic microwave sky

Craig J. Copi, Dragan Huterer, Dominik J. Schwarz, Glenn D. Starkman

摘要:

我们研究了WMAP图中温度的角两点关联函数。更新和扩展早期的结果,我们确认缺乏相关性的银河系以外的角度尺度大于约60度的水平,将发生在0.025%的实现的和谐模型。这代表了COBE-DMR原始观测的显著性显著增加,以及WMAP第一年地图的显著性显著增加。已知角功率谱C_ \ell的其余部分,由于在银河系平面外缺乏大角度相关性,因此需要C_ \ell之间的协方差达到\ell =5。另一方面,它需要异常小的(实现的5%)全天大角度相关,以及银河系与宇宙学波动模式的不寻常巧合(小于5%的2%)。我们认为,除非有一些未被发现的系统误差,在他们的收集或减少,数据指向违反统计各向同性。切天图中的大角度相关性几乎消失,再加上它们与从全天空图推断的结果不一致,仍然是一个悬而未决的问题,在和谐模型中很难理解。

英文摘要:

We investigate the angular two-point correlation function of temperature in the WMAP maps. Updating and extending earlier results, we confirm the lack of correlations outside the Galaxy on angular scales greater than about 60 degrees at a level that would occur in 0.025 per cent of realizations of the concordance model. This represents a dramatic increase in significance from the original observations by the COBE-DMR and a marked increase in significance from the first-year WMAP maps. Given the rest of the reported angular power spectrum C_\ell, the lack of large-angle correlations that one infers outside the plane of the Galaxy requires covariance among the C_\ell up to \ell=5. Alternately, it requires both the unusually small (5 per cent of realizations) full-sky large-angle correlations, and an unusual coincidence of alignment of the Galaxy with the pattern of cosmological fluctuations (less than 2 per cent of those 5 per cent). We argue that unless there is some undiscovered systematic error in their collection or reduction, the data point towards a violation of statistical isotropy. The near-vanishing of the large-angle correlations in the cut-sky maps, together with their disagreement with results inferred from full-sky maps, remain open problems, and are very difficult to understand within the concordance model.

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